Classic TV

[Razor X]

If this website is current, then they are still around:

http://www.pigglywiggly.com/store-locations

[Razor X]

Since the topic of Brit TV came up, I'll add in "Yes, Minister" / "Yes, Prime Minister" and the whole Inspector Morse series as favorites. 

By the way, McVitie's Plain Chocolate Whole Wheat Biscuits are great.  There's a store near me that sells them, but I can't bring my self to pay $5 for a sleeve of cookies>

Best Britcom of all time:  To The Manor Born. 

And you can get McVities cheaper than that online.

[tomgallagher]

Piggly Wiggly's are all over the place down south.

[Laser Man]

To the Manor Born - with Penelope Keith!  I remember it!

[Slynito]

Piggly Wiggly's are all over the place down south.

Piggly Wiggly, is in many small towns in Panhandle Florida

 

[D.A.L.U.I.]

Best Brit comedy, IMO, Fawlty Towers.  Series--Upstairs Downstairs on PBS--damn near proved we were still a colony, people didn't answer the phone on Sundays when it was on. 

[Slynito]

There's one British comedy that cracks me up..."The Vicar Of Dibley". There are so many funny characters and they spilled the beans that there are British Rednecks. And I understand it was on the air for over a dozen years. Good show, do y'all know it?

[Razor X]

There's one British comedy that cracks me up..."The Vicar Of Dibley". There are so many funny characters and they spilled the beans that there are British Rednecks. And I understand it was on the air for over a dozen years. Good show, do y'all know it?

Yes.

[J.J.]

What are the earliest shows you can remember watching?

Not necessarily all-time favs, but earliest I remember:

Primetime: Hawaii 5-0, Medical Center, Marcus Welby, That Girl, Love American Style, Brady Bunch
After school: Speed Racer
Saturday Morning: Banana Splits, Super Friends, Pink Panther

[J.J.]

Best Britcom of all time:  To The Manor Born. 

Oh yes, To The Manor Born was outstanding.  I love Britcoms, and aside from Manor, I would never get tired of watching:
Fawlty Towers
The Young Ones
Keeping Up Appearances
Ab Fab (Series 1-3; the later ones were a little too mean-spirited for my tastes)
Blackadder
And not a Britcom per se, but The Benny Hill Show was also a hoot!

[Magoo]

Benny Hill Show.....         

[J.J.]

For me it was Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, Six Million Dollar Man, Bionic Woman, Wonder Woman, Incredible Hulk (I worshiped Lou Ferrigno), and reruns of the Brady Bunch, I Love Lucy, Bob Newhart, and the Mary Tyler Moore show, to name a few.

Yes, yes, yes!  Plus All in the Family, Good Times, Maude, One Day At A Time, and SOAP!

[Razor X]

Another Britcom that I really liked -- and I've never met anyone on either side of the Atlantic who remembers it -- was Two's Company with Elaine Stritch and Donald Sinden.  She played an American writer living in London and he was her oh-so-proper and oh-so-disapproving English butler.  It ran from 1975 to 1979 on ITV and was shown on A&E here in the US in the early 80s.   They didn't make that many episodes, which may account for why it isn't better remembered, but I found the entire series on DVD a few months ago and bought it. It still cracks me up.

[mrzed]

I've not watched broadcast TV since about 1971. Don't have cable TV today and don't have a digital converter, so current TV only shows DVD's. Might watch a DVD once a month. So many other things to do in life than watch TV.

[Daven]

Talking about British shows what about an oldie but a goodie, it ran from '72 - '85 "Are You Being Served Yet?

I can't be the only one that was hooked on that really stupid campy show.